I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Quotations
Music
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
